Best Progress Quotes

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

There can be no progress if people have no faith in tomorrow.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.

If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn’t even begun to pull out the knife.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community… Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

Progress cannot be generated when we are satisfied with existing situations.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.

Run your own race. Who cares what others are doing? The only question that matters is ‘Am I progressing?’

As civilization progresses, we should improve our laws basically, not superficially. Many things that are lawful are highly immoral and some things which are moral are unlawful.

No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.

Very much of what we call the progress of today consists in getting rid of false ideas, false conceptions of things, and in taking a point of view that enables us to see the principles, ideas and things in right relation to each other.

Doubt can only be removed by action.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution – Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass.

Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.

I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.

Wounds.
Broken places.
Possibility.
Change.
Steps toward holiness.
Imperfect progress.
The hurt in those who hurt me—their underbellies.
Grace.
Love.
Me looking alot more like Jesus than I did before.
And to discover through all this seeing—being unglued isn’t all that bad.

God leads us step by step, from event to event. Only afterward, as we look back over the way we have come and reconsider certain important moments in our lives in the light of all that has followed them, or when we survey the whole progress of our lives, do we experience the feeling of having been led without knowing it, the feeling that God has mysteriously guided us.

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day’s progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.

I think that moral philosophy is useful for framing questions, but terrible at answering them. I think moral psychology is booming right now, and we’re making a lot of progress on understanding how we actually work, what our moral nature is.

Progress is a comfortable disease.

We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.

Love is said to be an involuntary passion, and it is, therefore, contended that it cannot be resisted. This is true in part only, for like all things else, when nourished and supplied plentifully with ailment, it is rapid in its progress; but let these be withdrawn and it may be stifled in its birth or much stinted in its growth.

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

The beauty of progress is that it makes it easier for you to carve out a space to be nonproductive.

Nothing recedes like progress.

Countries with more gender equality have better economic growth. Companies with more women leaders perform better. Peace agreements that include women are more durable. Parliaments with more women enact more legislation on key social issues such as health, education, anti-discrimination and child support. The evidence is clear: equality for women means progress for all.